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This book is the third and final volume developing an evolutionary
perspective on Judaism. The first book, A People That Shall Dwell Alone:
Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (MacDonald 1994; herafter PTSDA)
presented a theory of Judaism within an evolutionary framework, and the second
book, Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-
Semitism (MacDonald 1998a; hereafter SAID) presented an evolutionary theory
of anit-Semitism. Ethnic conflict is a recurrent theme throughout the first two
volumes, and that theme again takes center stage in this work. However, whereas
in the previous works ethnic conflict consisted mainly of recounting the
oftentimes bloody dynamics of Jewish-gentile conflict over the broad expanse of
historical time, the focus here is much more narrow. The emphasis shifts to a
single century and to several very influential intellectual and political movements
that have been spearheaded by people who strongly identified as Jews and who
viewed their involvement in these movements as serving Jewish interests.
Particular attention will be paid to the Boasian school of anthropology,
psychoanalysis, leftist political ideology and behavior, the Frankfurt School of
Social Research, and the New York Intellectuals. In addition, I will describe
Jewish efforts to shape U.S. Immigration policy in opposition to the interests of
the peoples of non-Jewish European descent, particularly the peoples of Northern
and Western Europe.